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On May 22, 1990, South Yemen and North Yemen united, forming the new Yemeni Arab Republic.

On May 22, 2017, a suicide bomber killed 22 people attending an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. More than 500 people sustained injuries.

On May 22, 1972, Richard Nixon became the first U.S president to visit Moscow.

Thomas Blanton, the last survivor of a group convicted of a 1963 Birmingham, Ala., church bombing, was denied parole Wednesday.

UPI Almanac for Wednesday, May 22, 2013.